These twenty-five images illustrate various aspects of
Louisiana botany, ecology, and cultural history. Some of the
photographs were taken at sites studied by William T. Penfound,
Professor of Botany at Tulane University and the author of seminal papers
describing Gulf Coast aquatic plant communities. Images from other
sources depict commercial activities and ways of life that no longer exist
in Louisiana. Each slide is glass-mounted and roughly 3 × 4 inches;
all images date from ca. 1925-1940. Captions are, for the most part,
taken from the slides, with some corrections and
additions.

A Louisiana trapper's palmetto cabin. Locality
unknown.

The Great Flood of 1927: Visitors watch the
Mississippi River spill through Caernarvon Crevasse, 13 miles below
New Orleans.